A Guide to Resilience

Resilience can be explained in many different ways. It can also mean different things. Everyone has resilience!
When we talk about resilience, we are talking about staying calm and in control when faced with a challenge.

Resilience is important because it gives people a way to understand trauma and get through tough times.

Being resilient means that you are strong enough to be able to:

• • Get through tough times in healthy ways.
  • Cope with difficult situations.
  • Overcome setbacks or obstacles.
  • Adapt well when you experience adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or stress.

People with less resilience may use unhealthy ways to overcome tough times.

• • Resilience is a set of skills that anyone can learn.
  • Some skills help us change our thoughts.
  • Some skills help us make different choices.
  • It takes time and practice to build resilience.

Resilience is important because it helps people deal with the bad things that happen to them. This means that people are strong enough to recover from difficult situations.
Example: Trauma, illness, disaster, job loss, a loved one’s death, or the COVID-19 pandemic, etc.

It allows us to manage things in a healthy way and get back on the same path we were on before. Dealing with hard things can mess up our routines, mental or physical health, self-image, relationships, and many other things in our lives. If we’re resilient, we can keep getting better.

People with less resilience may use unhealthy ways to overcome tough times. This can often lead to more issues later. It can also make it difficult to fully recover from the thing that happened in the first place.